Eight top cops investigated for massive prostitution racket

Eight senior police officers are being investigated five months after police from a neighboring city raided a Zhengzhou night club allegedly responsible for organizing the largest prostitution racket in Henan Province.

Zhengzhou police deputy chief Zhou Xinting was one of the highest ranking of the officers, the city's discipline inspection body was quoted as saying by Beijing Youth Daily.

Opened in August 2012 as the biggest entertainment venue in Central China, A Number of Royal was raided by police on November 1 last year.

Some 1,000 police officers from the city of Xinxiang were deployed to raid the club without informing Zhengzhou police. Three commissioners from the provincial public security department led the action.

It was the biggest prostitution case ever busted by Henan Province police, a policeman in charge of the case told the Henan Business Daily.

The anonymous officer said the case was more serious than the sex trade cases in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, exposed in February this year.

An anonymous manager at the club said it hired more than 1,000 women when it first opened and employed 500 as companions during daily business operations.

An anonymous staff member told the Zhengzhou-based newspaper that more than 100 customers signed up for 500,000 yuan ($80,200) membership cards issued by the club before it opened.

Women dressed in flight attendant uniforms and equipped with rolling luggage cases accompanied customers to talk and drink in club chambers, he said.

They later went out offering sex to customers. Each woman could earn at least 100,000 yuan a month.

Data from the club's front desk computer acquired by police showed annual revenue exceeded 200 million yuan, the report said.

An executive chairman of the club was arrested. Two owners fled to the United States.